After months of inaction, the House Judiciary Committee is set to act on national concealed carry reciprocity legislation Wednesday, a move that gun rights activists across the country have been waiting for since January.

The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Richard Hudson (R-SC) has 213 co-sponsors, all but three who are Republicans. The three Democrats are Sanford Bishop of Georgia, Henry Cuellar of Texas and Collin Peterson of Minnesota.

Baltimore County Council members offered support Tuesday for a proposed high-end "guntry club" and firearms range in Owings Mills. Council members held a public hearing Tuesday on a zoning bill that would enable the Guntry Club of Maryland to turn an 84,000-square-foot office building along Red Run Boulevard into a high-end shooting range and training center. The Guntry Club owners — retired county police Lt. Rick Landsman and current county police Det. Brian Wolf — did not attend the hearing.

Missourians enjoy the right to own and carry firearms though the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the Missouri Constitution, and state statutes, but firearms safety should be an important part of firearms ownership for the armed citizen. Firearm owner’s manuals provide instruction on methods to safely load, unload, use safeties, and fire a particular firearm. Professional instruction also is highly recommended.

The wife of a police lieutenant is now facing charges after she drunkenly shot her husband, according to charging documents. Police say 46-year-old Nancy Lynn Applegate shot her husband, Bellefontaine Neighbors Lt. Shawn Applegate, in their St. Peters home after the Guns 'N Hoses fundraiser last Wednesday, Nov. 22.

The Johnson County District Attorney’s office says it will not bring charges against the man who fatally shot 44-year-old Merriam resident Santos Thompson in his family’s driveway in the early hours of Aug. 24. Police took the shooter, reportedly a ride-sharing driver who had picked Thompson up to take him to his home in the 6800 block of Mastin, into custody for questioning following the incident, but he was released a short time later.

In theory, should you find yourself in a nasty situation where you may need to go to concealed-carry guns for your survival, it’s a simple matter of drawing your pistol, point the muzzle toward the threat and press the trigger, right? Well, what if that simple solution to a complex problem turns out to be not so simple?

The Mequon Common Council, with no discussion Nov. 14, unanimously approved lending $50,000 from its revolving loan fund to help get plans for a shooting range off the ground. Mequon residents Mark and Cheryle Rebholz have plans to open an eight-lane gun range in a 9,500-square-foot building at 9653 N. Granville Road on Mequon’s far southwest side. The city’s action is the final step in the process. The city’s Economic Development Board approved the loan request Oct. 24.

Florida's laws against the open carry of firearms will stand after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the petition of a Fort Pierce resident claiming the law is unconstitutional. The 2012 case of Dale Norman, a Fort Pierce man arrested in February of that year for openly carrying a holstered pistol in public, was denied Monday by the highest court in the United States.

Greg Evers was a southern gentleman. By occupation he was a down-to-earth, God-fearing farmer. This plain-spoken man with a southern drawl was equally at home in work clothes rolling around in the dirt trying to repair a broken tractor, or in a suit and polished cowboy boots, debating on the floor of the Florida House or the Senate trying to do the right thing for Florida citizens.

Weeks after one person was hurt in the shooting outside a Cheektowaga Dollar General, police say the guns used were SAFE Act compliant. Cheektowaga police say the guns Travis Green used on November 14 were legally purchased. Police say it took some time to determine they were compliant because of the complicated nature of the law.

Following deadly protests in Charlottesville back in August, Governor Terry McAuliffe signed an executive order temporarily suspending permits for protests at the Lee Monument in Richmond. As a result, protesters in September were allowed near, but not on Lee Monument Circle.

Thieves are busting into gun stores to grab loads of weapons and ammunition, stolen guns that are now on our streets. 5 on your side has covered several cases this month. In Des Peres, Affton, Valley Park, Crestwood and High Ridge — thieves have broken into at least five gun shops, in just the last couple of weeks.

Police are searching for as many as five juveniles in connection to the theft of several guns from a DeKalb County pawn shop.The guns were stolen from the Candler Road Pawn Shop in Decatur. Police say the suspects cut the lock off the door around 3 a.m. on November 20 and took at least 10 guns from the store.

A Fayetteville bar plans to allow customers to carry guns as soon as new enhanced carry permits are in place. A new law took effect in September that would allow concealed handguns into bars, churches, and government buildings. However, that can't happen until those with a concealed carry license get additional training through an enhanced carry permit. Those permits likely won't be available until rules are approved in early 2018.

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a full committee mark-up of H.R. 38, the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, this Wednesday! It’s therefore more important than ever to urge your member of Congress to support this crucial legislation. Concealed carry reciprocity is the NRA’s highest legislative priority in Congress. It would ensure that states recognize the concealed carry credentials of other states. This would end abuses in anti-gun states like New York and New Jersey and allow law-abiding concealed carriers to exercise their rights nationwide with peace of mind.

In Kemerovo 53-year-old woman brought to the police pistol “the Browning”, 1906 edition, which was discovered in the belongings of their relatives, RIA “Novosti” with reference to the regional Directorate of the interior Ministry. “According to the woman recently, she sold my parents house and sorting things relatives, found a revolver and four rounds to him. Pre-installed, it found a pistol “the Browning” of the 1906 year”, — told the Agency.

Anti-Second Amendment gun-grabbers are so fanatical and monomaniacal in their opposition to firearms that it’s with a great sense of relief I realize most of them don’t own a gun themselves. A weapon in the hands of someone that obsessed and impervious to reason is not a recipe for a calm society. Plus, there’s another reason I prefer they leave gun ownership to people like me: Many of them are pathological liars.

The phrase "charitable gaming" might call to mind images of senior citizens playing bingo in the basements of Roman Catholic churches or a sports car being raffled at the St. Cecilia festival in Independence. But in Northern Kentucky there are also firearms among the cakes and cars. These include a Daniel Defense M4v7 rifle with a DD Superior Suppression Device engraved with "Friends of the NRA."

Recently, an ADN reader who witnessed a daytime assault and robbery emailed me that she was considering carrying a firearm for protection for the first time in her life.

Let me offer some direction — after first disclaiming that what I write is not intended, nor should it be taken, as legal advice. Nor is it an exhaustive treatment of gun-carry laws.

The Alaska Constitution's Right to Keep and Bear Arms is in Article I, Section 19.

"A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The individual right to keep and bear arms shall not be denied or infringed by the State or a political subdivision of the State."

Hawaiian authorities have asked medical marijuana users to “voluntarily surrender” firearms due to their medicinal status. This may mark the first time a law enforcement entity has moved to confiscate guns from cannabis patients. Marijuana users in Honolulu are expected to turn over all firearms and ammunition to the state within 30 days of receiving the notice, according to a letter signed by police chief Susan Ballard, reported the website Leafly.

I am a highschool student with conservative views, a rarity these days. A few weeks ago I happened to wear a Smith and Wesson baseball hat to school. At the end of the school day, I was called to the main office where I was met by three of the school’s administrators. To my surprise I was told that my hat was offensive to my fellow classmates and teachers. I was unaware that there was anything offensive or disturbing about my hat. As far as I was concerned I was just wearing a hat that I wear from time to time. I was further surprised when the administrators said they needed to search my backpack.

More than two dozen guns have been stolen from a South Carolina store. The Sun News reports that the owner of Rivertown Auction Company and Gun Store, Blake Burris, says every gun case was shattered during the Saturday morning robbery, but not every gun was taken.

During the Wyoming Legislature’s most recent session, lawmakers passed a bill to give school boards the option to allow guns in K-12 schools under certain circumstances, and the school board in Lander is beginning to consider what to do with the new option. Under the new law, school boards have the option to allow school district employees to carry a concealed weapon on school property. The law does have some qualifications — the employee must have a concealed carry permit and proper training, and they must keep the firearm secure in either a lockbox or biometric container while in the building.

Missouri State University hosted a forum featuring two Missouri lawmakers. The goal was to talk about where guns should and shouldn't be allowed and what restrictions should be placed on gun ownership. Missouri is one of 16 states that ban concealed weapons on campus. "It's good to be talking about this now because people while they may not know or need to know right now what's forthcoming they will need to know what comes through," said Elizabeth Dudash-Buskirk, the event organizer and an MSU professor.

The Bullhead City Morning Kiwanis Club will conduct its gun, knife and ammo show and sale, just in time for Christmas. The sale will be held Dec. 2-3 in the lower level of the Bullhead Area Chamber of Commerce building, 1251 Highway 95 in Bullhead City. Hours will be 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday.

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